So they finally fixed the clusterfuck they caused in Moria when Champs got nerfed to the point of being near-useless?
Ha? In Moria tanks were near useless as most of the dungeons/raids were dps races
Encounter design flaw.
and Champs were top single target dps, top aoe dps
Design flaw - why weren't other classed brought in-line? It's not that champion was overtuned, champion mechanics stayed ABSOLUTELY fucking same with the same scaling, it's that other classes got fucked at launch. Why? Scaling issues. Proper fix: rebalance all classes to scale to new levels. Improper fix: Nerf a class. By the way, you forgot to bring up aggro generation problems for Guardian and Warden, both of which were cited as reasons for Champion survivability nerfs. Question: How hard is it to re-tune aggro mechanics? Apparently, very hard. If that is indeed the case, this again shows problems in design of the engine. Or stupidity. Also, we never had aggro issues because hey! Aggro management!
and survivable enough that you never really needed a "proper" tank, every instance in Moria was easily tankable by a Champion without even switching to Glory, purely in Fervor.
Encounter design flaw. Champions couldn't tank BG and other similar instances in Vanilla even in T2 sets from what I saw, or at least not for very long, and not DWing in Fervor. Btw, Moria encounters in non-raids were fucked up in so many ways and for so long that it'd take a wall of text to describe it. Exploits, aggro bugs, resets and more exploits. I'm not even sure all of those got fixed, not to mention that some that got fixed just introduced more bugs. Again, my point is - it wasn't the Champ class that was broken, it was the whole fucking game at that point. The
right way was to fix their shit wholesale, not do a quick balance check.
After Moria they were made somewhat squishier with Fervor healing nerfs, but in Moria Champions were by far the most op class.
During. Nerf happened mid-Moria, they hadn't even released the first actual raid by that time yet. Oh, and how about LIs being scrapped because of LI rebalancing for Champion items?
By the way, I take it you played a Champion in a raiding guild?
Oh yeah, and bear in mind that at least in EU, right about Moria time, the support teams were switched and replaced by morons that would make WoW early support teams look like total pros.